By Dr Badrawi

Reflections on The Brothers Karamazov There are novels we read, and there are novels that read us. The Brothers Karamazov…

Reflections on Genes, Human Agency, and Moral Accountability The more science advances, the more convinced I become that the most…

In the second half of the nineteenth century, at the height of Khedive Ismail’s efforts to present Egypt as a…

Every year, photographs of Egypt’s top high-school students fill the newspapers: confident smiles, certificates held proudly in their hands, as…

I recently read a translation of the French sociologists Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron’s Reproduction: In Education, Society and Culture…

Amid the madness of extremism and violence carried out in the name of Islam on one side, and the absurdity…

We often hear terms such as inflation, recession, depression, and stagflation. We repeat them in our conversations and hold them…

“His Eminence”… “Your Excellency”… “His Excellency the Minister”… “Your Holiness”… These words do not describe a body, nor do they…

In physics, there is a merciless law: every closed system, no matter how precise or beautiful it may be at…

Thinker Dr. Hossam Badrawi warned against reducing university-admission policies to simply responding to the current needs of the labor market.…

A future in which machines produce more than people need could free humanity from work as a condition for survival,…

I wrote a short story titled “The Genes of Evil,” and afterward I read the novel The Colors of Evil:…

On August 10, 2026, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order that caused widespread controversy in American medical and…

When I read about the new mutual defense agreement between Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan, I found myself asking: “Where…

The feeling that life has no purpose may be the hardest thing a person faces in old age. I thought…

Approaching 75, Hossam Badrawi reflects on ageing, purpose, curiosity, and the need to keep pursuing dreams, loving others, and finding…

Over the past few days, I have been following the debate surrounding Abdelrahman El-Sayed, an American of Egyptian origin, and…

— Egyptian Geographic Magazine When the Earth Reshapes Its Inhabitants The human form changes according to the geography of one’s…

My dentist fitted a single molar in my lower jaw. It was only a few millimeters in size, yet a…

Sometimes I open WhatsApp and find dozens of forwarded messages piling up every day in groups I can no longer…